That's the temporary name Stockton Animal Shelter staff gave to a weak dog rescued Friday from a small island in Fourteen Mile Slough in Stockton after being stranded there for at least two months.

"He's in remarkably good shape," said Tammie Murrell, interim manager at the Stockton Animal Shelter. "His toenails needed trimming, and he was flea-infested. He needs to put on a couple of pounds, but he's done well considering how long he was out there."

Vivian Portch of Stockton noticed the dog as she took regular walks on the levee that separates the slough from homes along Autumn Chase and Brook Falls circles.

She noticed over the past two months that the dog seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and she feared it might be starving.

News of the dog's plight reached around the world - well, at least over the equator - and an animal rescue group from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took time out from watching World Cup soccer to reach out to a contact in Fair Oaks, Donald Wesley.

He'd once rescued a dog after mudslides in Brazil.

Wesley swam out to the island several times to deliver food and set a trap for the dog. Animal Services set traps, too.

And on Friday, Wesley saw Jimmy several times.

"I was hearing the dog barking quite a bit," Wesley said. "I saw him poking his head out from the side, one of those beaver tunnels. The tide was as low as it was going to get. I saw him jump from one side and swim across the shallow lagoon area ... into the area where the traps were."

He apparently ran straight into one of the traps set up by Animal Services.

"He was not in a good mood in the cage," Wesley said.

In no time, the dog that had spent two tranquil months on a quiet island inhabited only by beavers took a quick boat ride followed by a motor trip and into a shelter teeming with life.

"He was very scared at first," Murrell said. "But within 15 minutes, he was eating out of our hands. And he hasn't nipped at anybody. He's a very nice little dog."

Although Wesley thought he was a Yorkshire terrier-Chihuahua mix, Murrell said he was a terrier mix with wire hair and the turned-up tail Portch had vividly described.

"We're confident we have the right dog," Murrell said.

Jimmy had no chip and was not neutered, so there's another little procedure in his future. But that will wait.

"We will not give him any more trauma today," Murrell said.

As for how he got there, no one knows.

"The only thing I can figure is he was at the water line and fell in, or he went in after something and got caught in the current that drifted him out there, and he was too scared to swim back," Murrell said.

He appears to have no major health issues from his stranding, other than the fleas. Despite his bath (both to remove the patina of months on a river island and for fleas) and an application of flea repellent, he was scratching a bit Friday, Murrell said.

But she is confident he'll make someone a good companion.

"My worst fear was that he was going to be this wild little dog we were unable to tame," Murrell said. But "he's highly adoptable. He's going to be a nice little dog for someone."